Skip to: IntroductionUniversal Extractor FeedbackIf you have any questions about, or find any problems with, Universal Extractor, please post your comments to the. This has become the main point of discussion for this project.Universal Extractor is a program designed to decompress and extract files from any type of archive or installer, such as ZIP or RAR files, self-extracting EXE files, application installers, etc. The full list of can be found in the table below. It's able to support so many varied file formats by utilizing the many backend utilities listed in the at the bottom of the page.Please note that Universal Extractor is not intended to be a general purpose archiving program. It cannot (and never will) create archives, and therefore cannot fully replace archivers such as.
What it will do, however, is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of archive, regardless of source, file format, compression method, etc.The original motivation behind this project was to create an easy, convenient way to extract files from various types of installation packages without the need to remember arcane command line switches or track down separate utilities to handle the unpacking. Over time, and with the encouragement of its many users and the fine folks over on the, it has evolved into a mature and very capable unarchiving utility that many, including myself, find indispensable.
Universal Extractor allows you to extract files from a wide variety of archive files, including ZIP, ARJ, LZH, as well as MSI and EXE files created using various installer packages (such as Nullsoft, Wise, Inno Setup, etc). Useful for testing apps for portability because you can extract files directly from installer packages without having to go through the installation process. Note that the original developer no longer updates the program so some manual updates may be.Alternatively, an with the latest-and-greatest internals is available (on Lupo's PenSuite site).Commercial use note: license restrictions are present on included files UHARC02.EXE and UHARC04.EXE, but can be deleted without dramatic impact on the software.
See website for more information. Category:.System Requirements:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7Writes settings to:Application folderStealth:No.
Latest=Universal Extractor 1.6.1 Release (build 66.)Updated by Gora.I got the file and have extracted the uextract.exe which is a 7z SFX file that is PW protected unless executed directly.This is a problem for me as it installs in C: and I don't install things there at all.I tried the method Gora posted for using extract,exe and it did not work; nothing I've tried has worked for this.Has anyone here gotten Gora's file to extract without having to run it; and if so, would you please educate me?!?Thanks. Thanks I am Baas for a useful reminder.:)Gora explains (@, Google translated.):After a recent algorithm change UE unpack some installers can extract different than the version 1.6.1.58. Before installing the new version be sure to save the old version, and in case of problems with unpacking, unpacking, check the old version and report the results here, attaching a link to the installer problem. In this period, the server check for new versions will be unavailable, and update UE will not be possible.Gora addons page (in Russian): /(Info only, downloads are hosted @ forum.oszone.net which requires registration.). @ strthere really isn't a step-by-step tutorial.but PAf is open source, and pretty much everything you need to know is posted here: /I started with NSIS, which is what PAF is based on. I can put together a step-by-step tutorial for NSIS which will help you understand what is going on?@ I am Baas:where is this info. About not posting help/launchers here, and only in forums?
This is the first i have heard of this? I thought help can be posted anywhere?
Sounds a bit clumsy. If there's a problem with help and sharing. I come to this post because of the wealth of info.
That is shared/helped. Ok i found somewhere on the internet version 1.5 and i am using it it is very stable and works with everything!!! The program looks the same and it will extract and compress.exe files and many other types. I use this more than jzip, 7zip, win zip, and even windows rar!!! My version is very portable all it is is a.exe file and a.dll file if you leave them together it works!!! Well if anyone can find a link please write a comment so that other people can also download i will not give you guys the link,for 1 i cant even remember the website, and 2 it is to good of a program to upload it and get it jammed in the process. Well that is that!!
The false positives from AV programs are a known issue. Please see and read through a couple pages of posts for details.mangancha, the file you downloaded is fine.
The page on legroom.net is the official 'home' of UniExtract, but since it's served from a home DSL connection I'm hosting the binaries on a shared webhost environment (c1pher.com) with far more available bandwidth.PJ and anonymous, as you pointed out UniExtract does write a file to C: for debugging, and it does write history information to the registry. When I originally wrote this app I didn't give any thought to the possibility that people would want to run it from a USB drive.
However, given that this has become a fairly common use, I'm planning on making the history and debugging features optional in a future version so that it can truly be considered a 'portable' app.Sproaticus, I don't understand your statement at all. RAR is a very common format, and can be freely extracted with any number of utilities. Simply search for unrar.exe to find an official command line version.
How does this possibly translate to shareware?Everyone else, if you have additional comments or questions, please consider sharing them on. I regularly follow this message board and can more quickly respond to any concerns.